Spring 2014

Seminar Series

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Staffan Truvé

Staffan Truvé is Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Recorded Future (www.recordedfuture.com). Staffan has spent the last 20 years working in the borderland between research and industry, creating new companies based on cutting-edge research. He helped launch more than 15 companies, including Spotfire, Appgate, Axiomatics, Peerialism, Makewave, Enmesh, and Recorded Future. From 2005 to 2009, he was CEO of the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), overseeing over 200 researchers, and is today still engaged as Scientific Advisor to SICS and chairman of its subsidiary Interactive Institute. Staffan is a member of the advisory board to the Swedish Minister of Information Technology and has consulted the Swedish government in 2004 in its restructuring of its research institute system. He is an advisor to a number of venture capital firms, research funding agencies, and start-up companies.

Staffan holds a PhD in Computer Science from Chalmers University of Technology and an MBA from Gothenburg University. He has been a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at MIT. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.